Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
Another anti-Shibboleth to exclude recruiters: Equating git and GitHub.
I just got email for a job where part of the application process is to include my “GIT login” for code examples. I have to assume they mean my GitHub username.
Handy bash aliases:
alias up='cd ..'
alias ':e'=vim
alias i4='sed "s/^/ /"'
alias headerdump='curl -D- -o/dev/null -s'
Now that season one of Silo has ended, time to discuss. Andy Lester @petdance talks about the generator repair and what it teaches us about how *not* to do an upgrade:
https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/silo-3724446c0438
Andy's book with PragProg:
https://pragprog.com/titles/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love/